the leadership of the secretary, we processed more v.a. claims than ever before in history. [ applause ] and we also came together, democrats and republicans, to support millions of veterans exposed to toxic substances while working and living near burn pits and other dangerous environments, the pact act has the most significant expansion of health care and benefits for veterans and their survivors in three decades and it was passed because of the leadership of our president and because of the leadership of so many of you and we are indebted to you for that hard work and success. [ applause ]

it is the top of the hour. i'm kate bolduan. thanks for being here. at this hour we are expecting a key state to release new voting numbers, control of congress still hangs in the balance, of course, in the senate republicans are holding 49 seats, democrats with 48. in arizona the states outstanding and remaining, one of the key ones being arizona, no winner has been declared in arizona in that key race. the democratic senator, mark kelly, holding a small lead over his challenger, the republican blake masters. we are also moments away from getting these new numbers in nevada where republican adam laxalt is narrowly ahead of democratic senator catherine cortez masto, but masto as we've been seeing has been closing the gap as vote totals are coming in. we're watching it closely. the house right now, republicans, they need just seven seats to win back the majority, but more than two dozen house races are still outstanding so we will see.

after that much talked about red wave failed to materialize in the way that it was expected donald trump is waging something of a war against florida governor ron desantis as trump is lashing out. the former president is slamming his fellow republican just days before he could be announcing a 2024 run for the white house. clearly a very fluid situation that we've been tracking. we're covering all of it for you across the country. let's start with john berman on these outstanding races. what are you seeing now, john? >> we are waiting for new vote tabulations from nevada, not yet. that is still the number from the last six or seven hours and so adam laxalt, the republican leads by about 9,000 votes. that gap is shrinking. yesterday it was 15,000 most of the day. votes had been tabulated and released overnight. in clark county also in washoe county which helped catherine cortez masto, the democrat, close this to 9,000. again, i'm curious to see where these new counts are reported

from and if they close the gap and i put this together for you. i wanted to point out in nevada this could be close but you know what, it's been very close in nevada before. this was the 1998 senate race between harry reid and john enson, two you covered. look at the difference. harry reid won it by 401 votes. 401 votes so things can be very, very close in nevada. while i have you, let me just tell you quickly about arizona. nearby. you have mark kelly, senator mark kelly, ahead by 115,000 votes, blake masters, he is trailing. i pointed out last hour that maricopa county has, you know, 340,000 votes left to report. 290,000 of that are mail ballots that were delivered on election day. what we saw two years ago is those ballots tended to tilt more republican than the other mail ballots. we are very curious, we just don't know if that will be the case this time.

so when those votes are reported and what we will see tonight from arizona will include stuff from that batch. we will have a much better sense of which way arizona is headed. blake masters has to do very well. i mean, very, very well in that vote total to have any hopes of closing that gap of 115,000 vote, kate. >> so interesting. i think you're hitting on something important which is there's a lot of mechanics of how elections are run these days, a lot of lessons to be learned from this when all the votes are counted and how they're coming in. it's really going to be interesting to see. so as john just mentioned, we are moments away from getting a new release, a release of more voting results. rosa flores is standing by in las vegas for us still. rosa, have they updated the vote totals yet? >> you know, we have not seen those totals updated. my producer helena will be continuing to refresh that page while i report to you, kate, because we're all looking at these numbers, once those

numbers are updated, the big question is which way do they go? toward the democrats or towards the republicans, but while we wait on that, a quick time line because this is what we know will happen in the next few days, today is friday, it's veterans day here in clark county. the workers continue to count the ballots. we're expecting for some results to be posted. tomorrow, saturday, that's the deadline for mail-in ballots. all the mail-in ballots that arrive by tomorrow that are postmarked on election day, those will be counted. here in clark county, those are about 50,000. then there are the ballots that need to be cured. here in clark county that's about 7,000. the deadline for that is monday. so if this race is still razor thin, we might have to wait until monday until that deadline because that's the deadline by statute and then there are the provisional ballots, kate. those -- the deadline for that is on wednesday, so just

depending on how this results -- how these results go, whether they say one way or the other, we could be here for a few more days, kate. >> we'll need to break out a calendar to mark it down. thanks for keeping track. let's talk more about arizona. there are an estimated 540,000 votes still to be counted. let's go to josh campbell standing by in phoenix where that vote count is still very much under way. are officials saying, explaining more because it's starting to become a question. you've been reporting on it talking more about why the vote is taking the amount of time that it is taking, why people might be asking why is it taking so long? >> yeah, kate, the head of elections here in maricopa county, republican bill gates told us yesterday that in his words, the goalposts are moving a bit. that is because they're still trying to process these 290,000 votes that john berman was just talking about, and the reason that is key is because if you

vote on election day that is typically tabulated very quickly, that night or the next morning but what they actually end up finding out in this county, the most populous in the state of arizona, a record number of people had mail-in ballots but rather than dropping them in the mail they decided to take them to a polling location on election day and drop off those ballots. that takes additional time because they have to go through and look at signatures and have to ensure that the voting information matches up and so as far as timing we're all wanting to know when this will be wrapped up. that will take additional time. those 290,000 ballots are going to be key for us to watch as these tranches continue to come out we expect another release today, perhaps throughout the weekend. we'll look for patterns. are they skewing more towards democrats? are they skewing more toward republicans and trying to discern where this is possibly going to go because we know some republican leaders urged their supporters to vote just by this very method. take the ballot on election day to the ballot box so we could learn a lot about what is coming ahead and as john was

mentioning, these vote totals are so close, these margins and the senate race and obviously in the gubernatorial race. we're keeping our eyes on the votes here but election officials are telling us to please be patient. they know the country wants these results but doing it as fast as they can. >> doing it the right way. they'll make it work and doing it accurately. that's what matters most. good to have you there. thank you so much. joining me now for more is cnn chief national affairs correspondent jeff zeleny and the white house bureau chief for "the washington post" is here too and john berman sticking with us. what do you think today will bring? it's an impossible question to answer. that's why it's so fun to ask. >> it will bring more counting. what we don't know, if it will bring more answers but, again, we should point out this does not mean the process isn't working, it is working but, of course, all eyes as josh was saying on nevada. particularly arizona. there is a sense that once we get sort of an idea of what that

universe of those ballots are that were mailed, 290,000 ballots, once we have a sense of a sampling of those, who has more of a share of those, mark kelly or blake masters, there will be a sense of where this race is going. y yes, senator kelly has the lead and pretty optimistic about arizona, the democrats i speak to but we've seen many examples of how this can change and as josh was saying republicans were ushging their voters to vote exactly like this, late early they call them. near election day then taking them in. so we'll just have to wait and see, but arizona is closer to a resolution or a result most likely than nevada. but, look, all eyes are on arizona and nevada, even at the same time as georgia right now, both sides are descending on the state of georgia to prepare for that runoff. we don't know if that will hinge on control of the senate but regardless, both sides are still fighting hard for that and beginning to put their troops in place. >> i want to talk about georgia kind of separately in a second. what do you think of these

outstanding races that jeff was talking about? >> i think jeff hit the nail on the head. we'll have to wait and see and find out what the batches that come in look like in terms of the vote breakdown between democrats and republicans. if democrats continue to perform well in these late counted votes they're in ray prime position in both arizona and nevada and their campaigns seem pretty optimistic. the path is very clear for them to win both and if they are able to win nevada and arizona that makes georgia slightly less important because it doesn't determine who will control the senate. it's still going to be an important race and still a six-year term for whoever wins that race but if democrats can win arizona and nevada they'll breathe a very big sigh of relief even as they try to put in a lot of support into georgia to make sure they win that state as well and have a little more breathing room with a senate majority of 51 as opposed to just 50/50. >> john, i know you've been looking and watching nevada closely along with, well, the

entire country. and rosa is saying we're waiting for more votes to come in but talk about the lead-up to this because didn't a lot of people expect cortez masto to lose and not be making sump a run for it. >> it's interesting because in a lot of the public polling leading up to election day she was trailing the republican adam laxalt. you don't have to scratch the surface to find republicans who say we got it in the bag. election day, very confident they were about what was going on there but the mail vote, m-a-i-l vote, the mail-in vote has been very favorable to catherine cortez masto and she's been getting margins, she's been over 60% in clark county in the mail-in vote even though the overall total is 51. that's what's being counted now is well over 60% and if she maintains those margins in the

57,000 votes here in the 22,000 votes here in washoe county, again, she's been getting over 60% of the mail-in vote here and she's only at 50% overall, you know, she could overtake adam laxalt. one thing i should point out while i have control of the wall, see the margins in the senate race, you know, the governor's races are a little different in both arizona and nevada. in nevada, joe lombardo the republican is in a better position than laxalt, steve sisolak has more ground to make up for sure and it's the same situation in arizona. yes, katie hobbs, the democratic secretary of state is ahead of kari lake, but not by as much as mark kelly. a much bigger margin for the democrats here and there is some feeling that mark kelly might hold on even as more republican leaning votes are counted in arizona, but that kari lake will be able to overtake katie hobbs, you can see the margin is much, much smaller in the governor's race. >> so interesting. jeff, you mentioned georgia.

you spent a lot of time in georgia and that runoff is now, you know, happening fast and furious if you will and it's going to be expensive. i asked the president yesterday if he would be campaigning with raphael warnock. let me play what kate bedingfield said about it. >> re >> the president will do whatever is helpful to him, campaigning, raising money, whatever senator warnock would like, the president will do. >> what do you think warnock does about that? >> i think we know exactly what he's going to do. the president is not going to step anywhere near georgia in the next month. if they would have thought it would have been helpful he would have gone during the prior month. it's real interesting, georgia, of course, narrowly went for president biden in 2020. really surprising a lot of people on the biden campaign and he traveled there repeatedly during the runoff last year. he traveled there a few times in 2021. earlier this year since then has not been there but it almost doesn't matter because joe biden

is so present in georgia, in television ads, in billboards, in mailers coming up in people's mailboxes with republicans trying to tie senator warnock to the policies of the administration and to joe biden himself. so i would be stunned if president biden went to georgia. we also didn't see vice president harris going to georgia during this period. georgia democrats and the warnock campaign believe that, you know, they want to try and localize this and make this about herschel walker, not make this about the biden administration. >> we will see if they are able to pull that off in this final sprint again. it's good to see you all. thank you so much. so celebrations in ukraine after its forces liberated a key city from russian troops in a major defeat for vladimir putin. we have a live report from inside ukraine next.

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a humiliating defeat for russia.

[ crowd chanting ] ukrainian troops liberating the strategic southern city of kherson. residents as you're seeing taking to the streets then to celebrate the liberation. cnn's nic robertson, one of the first journalists to enter some of the newly liberated areas is joining us live from ukraine. what have you been seeing and hearing from people? >> reporter: yeah, just feeling of liberation is so overwhelming for some people. there's a real sense of gratitude and thanks to the ukrainian troops and we've seen that on the streets in other towns outside of kherson today. people hugging the troops, even waving at us because they hadn't seen people coming in from this site for such a long time. they are having a very, very difficult time. no water, no electricity, so the sense of relief they survived on top of all that the repression of the russian forces and the

accounts that we've been hearing from people today have been absolutely bone chilling. one young girl who is 15 years old, i spoke to her and her mother and said she had been taken in the last few days by the russian troops. they had put a hood on her head. taken her to the basement of a building, threatened to cut off her fingers if she didn't tell them where the ukrainian troops were and she said she thought she was going to be raped. she was only released yesterday. another elderly lady, a pensioner was in tears and told the russians said they would kill her and smash her head in and she was clearly so traumatized by it but on the streets, as well, you see people seeing their relatives and close friends again whom they haven't seen for awhile and hugging each other and tears rolling down their faces because they know they survived. the russians took people away, took people away, beat them up and tortured them and in some cases the residents we spoke to said the people they knew were taken, they didn't come back,

they don't know where they were so this was a moment-by-moment fear people had outside on the streets. now that's gone. they've got freedom. >> these are just going to be some of the stories that you're going to be hearing as more and more people feel comfortable talking after this liberation. nic, thank you for being there. so president biden, he's proclaiming the world to the world that the united states is back as a global leader on the climate crisis. the president speaking a little while ago at the u.n. climate summit in egypt. let's go there. david mckenzie is live in sharm el sheikh for us. how were the president's remarks received by world leaders? >> reporter: well, kate, i think they were warmly received here in egypt and you're right. his message was that the u.s. is back in terms of climate leadership. he even apologized for president trump pulling out of the paris climate agreement. he went on to talk about his own legislative achievements

including the inflation reduction act which he said would kick start a green transition in the u.s. you know, this year, a lot of people have said ukraine war and russia's actions will mean that people and countries will try to find energy, particularly fossil fuels elsewhere. he said the opposite, he says this is an opportunity to make that important transition. >> the upheaval we're seeing around the world especially russia's brutal attack against ukraine is exacerbating food shortages and energy spikes and costs. increasing volatility in those energy markets, driving up global inflation, against this backdrop it's more urgent than ever that we double down on our climate commitments. no action, no action can be taken without a nation understanding that it can use energy as a weapon and hold the global economy hostage. it must stop.

>> reporter: now, president biden didn't talk about how specifically the u.s. will give substantial funds to developing nations, climate reparations, as it were. that's something people here have been asking for, kate. >> absolutely. it's good to see you, david. thank you so much. joining me now max boot, a senior fellow at the council on foreign relations and bill weir. i want to ask about ukraine and this extraordinary reporting and the video coming out from nic robertson. how significant do you see as this development in kherson being liberated? >> it's quite significant. this is the third major ukrainian victory of the war following the battle of kyiv and the ukrainian counteroffensive in kharkiv and now kherson. the ukrainians have actually managed to liberate most of the territory. not all but most of the territory that the russians seized at the beginning of this war. it's a tremendous victory for the ukrainians, it's a blow to

putin and i think that it will help to keep the anti-russia coalition together in the west through this difficult winter so this is very good news, indeed. >> and ukraine is very clearly, max, a major topic for the g20 summit where the president will meet face-to-face with china's xi jink ping. you're not necessarily optimistic of major progress coming from that rare meeting and rare face-to-face in person but do you think there could be something that comes of it? >> i think the fact that president biden and president xi are meeting. it's good news because the chinese cut off a lot of contacts in august after speaker pelosi's visit to taiwan and, you know, even if we are in a new cold war with china, remember, during the actual cold war, we still talk to the soviet union and we need to talk to the chinese. there are a lot of issues that we are going to be at odds on and they're not going to be solved in this meeting but there are possible areas of agreement

or overlap, whether it's climate change or a sneaky subject might, in fact, be the russian war in ukraine, because china has given every indication it is not enthusiastic about this invasion that putin has launched, just a few days agohe said there should not be a nuclear conflict. so the fact that the ukrainians are having so much success and the russians are losing ground in ukraine, i think, could create some fresh impetus for both president xi and president biden to discuss putting pressure on russia to end this war. >> that's really interesting. bill, this gets directly right back to the climate conference and the conversation that we were having last hour. i was interested in -- i want to get your take on, at the climate conference, a first has happened. david mckenzie was touching on it a little bit. the issue of industrialized nations paying more for the damage that they've created in

terms of the climate. for the first time that issue is actually been included on the formal agenda. how significant is this? are people actually really getting on board? what do you see. >> sort of -- it's been broken. it was a ten-year freezeout. this promise was made over a decade ago that will create $100 billion pot for the countries suffering the worst of this and have tiny carbon footprints, it's the moral thing to do. now biden is promising $11 billion a year by 2024. some of other countries are stepping up. some in europe have already put in. i think scotland was the very first to say, we're in. we owe them. threw a couple million dollars in. it matters for credibility and partnerships and the clip that david played in terms of imagine instead of creating empires the way, you know, it happened a couple hundred years ago, you go to these country, take all of their natural resources, the people are worse off, emergency going in partnership and create green empires around the world.

without the colonialism that goes along with it. i think that's the message he's trying to preach right there but so much of his promises depend on two people, president xi and kevin mccarthy or whoever is the new speaker of the house because they have to appropriate that $11 billion that goes to those developing countries and historically they haven't been that interested. >> what is the view? we know the historical split between, if you will, democrats and republicans on the climate crisis. it is changing, it is different now, but what about this issue? >> what's interesting is some people are coming from the right are coming to the climate issue really driven sort of by profit motive and seeing there are trillion dollar industries going to be uncorked in this new age. there are -- there's a delegation of republicans in sharm el sheikh right now, congress, members from the western states, in fact, from places like utah where there is a lot of uranium so spreading a pro-nuclear message. there are policies that maybe the trillion trees reforest

station that republicans have talked about in the past. there may be common ground now in the next term but even last night democrats that were in sharm el sheikh warn it's going to be much harder to make promises if the republicans take the house and the senate. >> well, we will have at least one answer on that maybe in the coming days on who will be in power of congress and the climate crisis still remains as the major issue they need to tackle regardless of who it is. thank you. max, thanks, great to see you. so the 2022 midterms were the most expensive in history. so where did that money go and did it have an impact? who did it help? we'll break down the numbers next. but at the end of the day, you know you have a team behind you that can help you. not having to worry about the future makes it possible to make the present as best as it can be for everybody.

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as votes continue to be counted in this year's midterm election one thing is clear, both parties have spent a record amount of money. matt egan joins me now with more. how much money are we talking about here? >> kate, a stunning amount. more than a billion dollars on the five most expensive senate races alone. this is spending by the campaigns and by outside groups from both parties, those five states, we're looking at pennsylvania, arizona, nevada among them. the most expensive the battle to control senator pat toomey's seat, $264 million on that race alone, most of that went to mehmet oz who has conceded to

democrat john fetterman flipping that seat from red to blue, let's talk about some of the spending on some of the races that have not yet been called starting with arizona. repu republican blake masters trying to beat kelly. nevada, most of the money going to catherine cortez masto, who narrowly trails the republican there and then in georgia, that was another big one, number two on this list, $252 million spent there, that was before the runoff, more than $100 million to each candidate. it was exactly 48 hours ago that cnn projected this race is going to a runoff in early december and the money is already pouring in for that runoff, $7 million so far going to the democrats, $3 million for republicans. here's the crazy thing, kate. after all the spending, social media ads, the commercials it is possible that we end up kind of back to where we were.

narrowly divided senate that might be narrowly controlled by the democrats. >> what is the return on investment? it can be a debate for both parties getting back to campaign finance reform. good to see you. thank you very much. i appreciate it. all right, let's get back to another race we're watching closely, that tight race out of colorado. trump ally congresswoman republican congresswoman lauren boebert fighting to keep her seat facing a real challenge from democrat adam frisch right now. this race is so close, it could trigger state laws meaning an automatic recount. joining me now is colorado's top elections official secretary of state jena griswold. thank you so much and first off congratulations on your re-election to a second term as secretary of state. i want to ask you about that in just a moment. but first, on this race, what can you tell us about vote counting when it comes to colorado's 3rd congressional district race? how many votes still need to be counted? >> well, thank you, kate. for having me on and for the congratulations and i want to thank all the nation's veterans

for protecting our democracy and our nation and freedoms. when it comes to counting votes out here in colorado, the counting continues. the colorado election model is extremely accessible. we have weeks of early voting, same day voter registration, vote by mail for all where we just affirmatively send a registered voter a ballot but if voters really turn out in the days leading up to election day and on election day, that just means it takes time for the county clerks to process the ballots. so that is still happening across the state and on top of that, speaking of veterans day, military and overseas voters have until wednesday to have their ballots be received and also if a voter has a signature issue on their mail ballots they have until wednesday to fix those signatures. so the process is ongoing and what is the most important thing is that every vote counts. >> absolutely. do you have an estimate of how many outstanding votes there are and what counties they're from? >> well, there's actually

thousands of votes across the state. they're still processing them but in part it's also because every county holds on to a specified amount of ballots until next wednesday and the reason that they do that is because as voters fix their signatures and as overseas the military ballots are continuing to come in, the vote of how a coloradan casts the ballot has to stay anonymous and the only way to ensure that the vote stays anonymous to hold a certain number of ballots in every county to make sure that as results are released no voter the way they vote is actually disclosed in reporting. >> when it comes to colorado 3 and in the state of colorado an automatic recount is triggered if the difference is 0.5%. how likely do you think the race will end up in a recount? >> it's too early to tell. we need to be able to process the rest of the ballots and then

after that, we will do a bipartisan risk limiting audit which confirms the results followed by a bipartisan canvas and then only then do i certify the election and it's determined whether we go into recount. there's two ways to do a recount in the state of colorado. one it's mandatory which you just mentioned but candidates can pay for a recount if they show choose so we are a couple weeks out from that determination and, again, we're just making sure that every vote counts because every voice matters in the state of colorado and across the nation. >> absolutely. secretary of state, thank you so much for coming on and congratulations on your re-election. >> thank you. >> another basis election cycle ahead for you and the state. >> thank you so much. hurricane nicole causing extensive damage in florida on florida's east coast. the state is once again having to pick up the pieces from yet another storm. details are next.

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become another deadly storm. at least five people have been killed. let's go to chicago now where work is at a standstill after a disturbing discovery, officials say a noose was found at the construction site for the obama presidential center. let's go to adrienne broaddus with much more. i believe there's now -- there's a reward being offered for information. what are you learning? >> reporter: kate, that reward is being offered by the builders lakeside alliance and it's up to $100,000. that's for information leading to the person who group responsible for leaving this alleged noose on the construction site here at the obama presidential center. this is what the obama administration or the obama foundation, i should say, is saying. in a statement they wrote, quote, this shameless act of cowardice and hate is designed to get attention and divide us. we also heard from the state's

governor, j.b. pritzker who condemned this hateful act saying in a tweet, the noose is more than a symbol of racism, it is a heart-stopping reminder of the violence and terror inflicted on black americans for centuries. this alleged noose was discovered thursday morning. i spoke with a spokesperson from lakeside alliance, we traded emails today. that person told me anti-bias training starts for all workers and staff here next week. you might be wondering why you see activity behind us. they say that's to maintain safety and security here. kate. >> all right, adrienne, keep us updated. so saturday night live facing backlash over its choice for a host. how dave chappelle and nbc are now responding. that's next. nina has a plan based on what matters most to her. and she can simply focus on right now. that's the planning effect. from fidelity.

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this weekend comedian dave chappelle will be hosting "saturday night live." his team right now is denying a report that "snl" writers are actually planning a boycott over his past comments about transgender people. what is going on with this. >> reporter: i think the bottom line is this, people say memories are short. memories are really long and there are a number of people still upset. still hurt over chappelle's past comments. now comes word that some at "snl" are now actually

questioning whether or not he was the right person to be chosen to host. anticipation building at 30 rock, home of nbc and "saturday night live" where comedian dave chappelle is set to host "snl's" post-election day episode this weekend. >> this is dave. he tells jokes for a living. he's also about to host "saturday night live" for the third time. >> reporter: but this time, questions about possible problems behind the scenes. chappelle's representatives pushing back on unconfirmed reports that "snl" writers were staging a boycott related to the comedian's previous comments about the trans community telling cnn, we've seen nothing to support media reports of a writers' boycott, in fact, the writers delivered over 40 sketches for dave's consideration and collaboration. chappelle has come under fire for comments about the

transgender community in his netflix special "the closer." >> gendz ser a fact. every human being in this room, every human being on earth had to pass through the legs of a woman to be on earth. that is a fact. >> reporter: a reddit user captured this from a "snl" writer. i'm trans and nonbinary, i use they/them pronouns. transphobia is murder and it should be condemned. it's not clear if it was aimed at chappelle. there was no comment about him hosting. it was met with backlash on social media as some pointed out the show announced in september it was adding its first n nonbinary cast member, molly kearney. chappelle began his post-election hosting for "snl" in 2016 following the election of donald trump. >> all my black friends who have money said the same thing when

trump got elected. that's it, bro. i'm out. i'm leaving the country. you coming with us? nah, i'm good, dog. i'm going to get this tax break and see how it works out. >> reporter: he continued in 2020. >> i thought we were having a comedy show. it's like a woke meeting in here. >> reporter: now chappelle is set for another go in front of "snl's" live studio audience as both his critics and fans wait to hear what he will say next. and cnn reached out to nbc about chappelle. a spokesperson said the network is not commenting. you know, "snl" ratings, as you know, have been sort of up and down over the past few year, but i think a lot of people will tune in to see exactly what chappelle does during his opening monologue and how he handles himself. >> dave chappelle is a unique talent and dave chappelle does speak his mind. that's good to see you. the turmoil at twitter is mounting by the hour.

the social media giant just suspended its highly touted paid verification system talked so much about. executives are quitting and advisers are bolting and remaining employees are facing new threats from their new leader, elon musk. cnn's oliver darcy joins me with more. oliver, do people believe we are watching twitter's collapse right now? >> reporter: yeah, kate, i think that's the real question. can twitter survive elon musk? and the real questions about that given the chaos that's consumed this company over the last couple weeks since he took over. the latest example, of course, being that suspension of the twitter blue feature that musk had hyped and rolled out in a chaotic fashion, but i just want to walk people through ha has happened exactly over the past two weeks since musk took over. you've seen top executives flee the company or been ousted from the company including as of yesterday the head of trust and safety who is a really key

integral person and seen advertisers flee the company because they are no longer essentially trusting that twitter is not going to put their content next to hate speech, misinformation, things like that. you've seen employee morale tank after they laid off half of the company. i was talking to an ex-twitter employee yesterday who compared it to the "titanic" with employees looking for a way out. looking for a lifeboat and you've seen the ftc warn twitter they need to be in compliance with federal regulations and so this whole company is facing mounting problems and elon musk in the meantime, is sort of just tweeting through it. so i don't know what the future it, kate. >> yep, well, we will find out together. it's good to see you, oliver. thank you all so much for joining us. i'm kate bolduan. cnn newsroom with ana cabrera is next.

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